I know this doesn’t have anything to do with Shakespeare, but I thought that you would find it interesting Mr. Sexson. I have been doing research on my photography and came across this tidbit.
"Before mentioning the stages that led to the development of photography, there is one amazing, quite uncanny prediction made by a man called de la Roche (1729- 1774) in a work called Giphantie. In this imaginary tale, it was possible to capture images from nature, on a canvas which had been coated with a sticky substance. This surface, so the tale goes, would not only provide a mirror image on the sticky canvas, but would remain on it. After it had been dried in the dark the image would remain permanent. The author would not have known how prophetic this tale would be, only a few decades after his death."Click on the above paragraph to take you to the website where this information was found and more information about the beginning of photography.
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